A brief span of 40 years serves to encompass the extraordinary history of modern means of communication between our respective countries.

The Executive order dated March 5, 1930, abolishing New Bern and Manteo, North Carolina, as customs ports of entry in Customs Collection District No. 15 (North Carolina) with headquarters at Wilmington, North Carolina, is hereby suspended…

It is a source of especial gratification to me to participate today in the ceremonies attendant upon the inauguration of direct radiotelephonic communication between Chile and the United States of America.

These increasingly numerous ties, created through the cooperation of scientific endeavor and commercial necessities, form the material part of the strong bond, the other part of which is intellectual and spiritual fraternity, that…

In fact, it is the great stocktaking of American progress.

It is well to have a confidential census taken by the Government to enumerate the people.

The census is vital to the progress and determination of many social policies.

It is well that the American people know the census is confidential.

Yes--we will follow the recommendations as the basis of our Haiti policies.

ON THIS anniversary of Your Majesty's birth please accept my hearty congratulations and best wishes for your health and happiness and for the continued prosperity of Your Majesty's country.

Idaho BOISE MERIDIAN PATETTE RIVER...

The character of the consultative pact which they have suggested, that is, from outside sources, does not interest any of the governments sitting in that Conference.

It would not secure the reduction of one single ton--any of the pacts that have been suggested.

This order is recommended by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

There appears to be a good deal of misimpression through the United States as to the situation there in respect to some proposal of a consultative pact.

This Conference is not over with by any manner or means, and I am very confident that constructive results of some order will come out of it.

They are not exchangeable into naval tonnage.

Mrs. Hollister has passed the civil service examinations for stenographer and typist and translator, Spanish and French.